[zupancik]

Is Test Engineer different from SETI (Tools and Infrastructure)? What does SETI do?

[curiousDog]

Search for great tools and engineers on far away, exotic planets :-)

[junke]

The begs the question: can we SETI at home?

[rifung]

I believe SETI is the new name for what was formerly Test Engineer. I think they changed the name because it was a better description of what they do. I suspect it also made it easier to hire for, although that might just be due to the aforementioned reason.

This is based off what I was told when I interviewed there a year ago.

[CardenB]

SETIs are what SETs used to be. TEs are different. So SETI == SET but SETI != TE and SET != TE

[rifung]

I appreciate the correction and apologize for misinforming people. Unfortunately I can no longer edit my original comment

[CardenB]

Yeah no problem. Just wanted to clarify. The vocabulary is confusing.

[Bahamut]

From what I understand, SEs in Test are now called SETI, but I could be wrong. It sounds like SETI does all the things the test engineers do in Google (I interviewed with SETI a half-year ago).

[jochenw]

Yes, they are. That's why we started this little series of posts to highlight the difference. There already are some articles on SETI (aka SET). For example https://testing.googleblog.com/2016/03/from-qa-to-engineerin...